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DEPARTMENT OF CSE
CP7103 Multicore Architecture
UNIT IV: RLP AND DLP IN WAREHOUSE-SCALE ARCHITECTURES
100% THEORY
QUESTION BANK
Programming Models and Workloads for Warehouse-Scale Computers –
Architectures for Warehouse-Scale Computing – Physical Infrastructure and
Costs – Cloud Computing – Case Studies.
PART-A: 2 MARK QUESTIONS
1. Define WSC.
2. What are the different costs of WSC?
3. What is CAPEX?
4. What is OPEX?
5. Define Power Utilization effectiveness.
6. What is disk band width?
7. What is the range of PUE? And what is the value of ideal PUEW?
8. Write the formula for PUE.
9. What are the challenges in cloud computing?
10. Explain the three different three V’s of big data.
11. What is DRAM bandwidth?
12. What is boarder router?
13. What is the difference between data center and WSC?
14. What is HPC cluster?
15. What is the difference between HPC and WSC?
16. Define SLO and SLA.
17. What is the importance of cooling system in WSC?
18. What are the power components in WSC?
19. Write the distribution of power over power components in WSC?
20. What is data delge?
21. Define field programmable gate array.
22. Why Warehouse Scale Computing?
23. What is SaaS?
24. What is oversubscription?
25. Define rack.
26. What is an array?
27. What is band width?
28. What is internal band width?
29. What is bisection band width?
30. Define FRGA.
31. What is latency band width?
32. What is sharding or partitioning?
33. What is the average memory latency assuming that 90% of accesses are local to the
server, 9% are outside the server but within the rack, and 1% are outside the rack but
within the array?
34. What is network interface card?
35. How long does it take to transfer 1000 MB between disks within the server, between
servers in the rack, and between servers in different racks in the array?
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36. How long does it take to transfer 1000 MB between DRAM within the server,
between servers in the rack, and between servers in different racks in the array?
37. What is the power loss in high voltage utility distribution?
38. What is the power loss in generators?
39. What is the power loss in UPS generators?
40. What is the power loss in IT load?
41. What is PDU?
42. What is the collective efficiency of connectors, breakers and electrical wirings?
43. What is CRAC?
44. Define wet bulb temperature,
45. Define airside economization.
46. What is name plate power rating?
47. What is the breaking down power usage for Google WSC?
48. Write the formula for Power Utilization effectiveness.
49. What are the units for WSC power utilization?
50. Write the formula for power utilization of WSC?
51. The cost of electricity varies by region in the United States from $0.03 to $0.15 per
kilowatt-hour. What is the impact on hourly server costs of these two extreme rates?
52. What is the impact of cloud on storage costs?
53. What is the impact of cloud on administrative costs?
54. What is the impact of cloud on networking costs?
55. What is a cloud?
56. What is DVFS?
57. What are the uses for cloud computing?
58. Write a short note on Amazon S3.
59. Write a short note on Amazon EC2.
60. What is the advantage of Virtual machines?
61. Write a short note on AWS.
62. What is the cost (dollar per hour) for running the AWS server?
63. Given that the costs of MapReduce jobs are growing and already exceed $100M
Per-year, imagine that your boss wants you to investigate ways to lower costs.
Two potentially lower cost options are either AWS Reserved Instances or AWS
Spot Instances. Which would you recommend?
64. Write the formula for average price.
65. Define server utilization.
66. Define annual price.
67. What is energy proportionality?
68. What is container?
69. What are the characteristics of container?
70. What is bay?
71. What is dynamic voltage frequency scaling?
72. What is the range of power usage effectiveness for Google?
73. Define current transformers.
74. Define NIC.
75. Write a short note on monitoring system in Google.
76. Write a short note on repair system in Google.
77. What is the range of temperatures in Google server?
78. What are the energy efficiency techniques in Google chilling system?
79. What is the technique used to save power in Google container?
80. How the operational efficiency of PUE increased in Google?
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81. What is the technique used in designing motherboard?

82. What is the technique used in designing server board?
83. What is the use of AWS reserved instances?
84. What are the critical problems in WSC?
85. What is homogenous assumption WSC?
86. Write a short note on rigidness of application.
87. Define ISA.
88. What are the three contexts of Single Rigid Binary Execution?
89. What is QoS?
90. What is the reciprocal of latency?
91. Analyze EE Diversity in Production WSC.
92. What are the different mapping jobs at cluster level?
93. Define smarty map.
94. What is the benefit of intelligent map?
95. What are the Factors Affecting EE Diversity?
96. What is LOAF?
97. Write a short note on light weight online adaption frame work.
98. Write a short note on Online Adaptation for Aggressive Optimizations.
99. Write a short note on Online Adaptation for Contention Detection and Response.
100.Write on Contention Aware Execution Runtime (CAER)

PART-B: 16 MARK QUESTIONS

1. Explain the concepts involved in Amazon web services cloud computing. (16)
2. Explain goals and requirements with server architects while designing a Warehouse
Scale Computers. (16)
3. Write as essay on Physical infrastructure and Costs of WSC (16)
4. Explain the computer architecture of warehouse-scale computers. (16)
5. Write an essay on cloud computing. (16)
6. Using an example explain the architecture of cloud computing (16)
7. Explain the design factors of WSC. (16)
8. Explain the characteristics of cloud programming model. (16)
9. What is cloud computing and explain different challenges for a cloud. (16)
10. Write an essay on power efficiency and power loss? (8)
Draw a diagram for cooling system and explain. (8)